Welcome to the Selling Partner API Blog

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Important

The Selling Partner API Blog is on a deprecation path and will be sunset on July 31, 2024. For technical guidance on Selling Partner APIs, refer to the SP-API documentation site.

Welcome to the Selling Partner API Blog. Here you'll find articles from Amazon Solutions Architects and API experts covering a range of topics including customer stories, migration, best practices, tips and tricks, and much more.

Featured posts

• Fulfilling Amazon and external orders with the Selling Partner API
  Explains how to use the Selling Partner API (SP-API) to create an order fulfillment ecosystem.
• Automate your Vendor Central Direct Fulfillment purchase orders workflow
  Explains how to automate business processes using the Direct Fulfillment APIs.
• Automate your Vendor Central Retail Purchase Orders
  Explains how integrating APIs can simplify vendor integration and facilitate efficient business operations to foster success on Amazon's platform.

Getting started

• Getting started with Selling Partner API for vendors
  Summary of the APIs available for vendors on Selling Partner API and information on how to get started using the Selling Partner API.
• Choosing roles for your developer profile and SP-API application
  Understand what SP-API roles are and how to select the roles you need for your profile and application.
• Guidance to address key security controls in SP-API integration
  Guidance for developers to address ten key security controls when integrating with Selling Partner API and correlation of these controls to the applicable Data Protection Policy (DPP).
• How Vendors can use Selling Partner APIs to increase their performance
  SP-API solutions makes it easier to manage and optimize the vendor sales channel.
• Troubleshooting Selling Partner API authorization errors
  Context and troubleshooting tips for common error messages and codes that developers may encounter during the application authorization process for Selling Partner API.

Tutorials

• Enhance your order workflow with the ORDER_CHANGE notification
  Explains how to migrate to and use the ORDER_CHANGE notification.
• Use a single SP-API application to authorize multiple Vendor Central accounts
  Use the self-authorization page in Vendor Central to authorize multiple vendor groups/Vendor Central accounts to a single application.
• Automate your SP-API calls using C# SDK
  Tutorial to automate your SP-API calls with C# SDK with Login with Amazon (LWA) token exchange and authentication.
• Automate your SP-API calls using Java SDK
  Tutorial to automate your SP-API calls with Java SDK with Login with Amazon (LWA) token exchange and authentication.
• Create custom monitoring dashboards for SP-API apps in Postman
  Describes how to use Postman to create a custom monitoring dashboard for Selling Partner API (SP-API) apps.
• How to Test Selling Partner API Endpoints
  Explains how to test SP-API calls using selling partner sandbox endpoints.
• Event-driven architecture in Selling Partner API
  Use the Notifications API to to build an event-driven architecture.
• Manage your product listings lifecycle with Selling Partner API
  Simplify and manage your product listings lifecycle with SP-API.
• Rotate your SP-API credentials using AWS
  This blog post explains how to rotate your SP-API credentials programmatically with AWS.

Guidance and best practices

• Enhancing user reviews and feedback
  Explains how developers can use the Solicitations API to request customer reviews.
• Retrieve Merchant Shipping Templates using the Product Type Definitions API
  Explains how developers can use the Product Type Definitions API to view Selling Partner Merchant Shipping Templates and enhance listing quality.
• Selling Partner OAuth 2.0 workflows: understand and optimize your OAuth integration
  Explains two ways to implement OAuth integration workflows.
• Rotate your SP-API credentials using AWS
  This blog post explains how to rotate your SP-API credentials programmatically with AWS.
• Overview of usage plans and rate limits
  Overview of usage plans and rate limits and best practices for managing resources.
• Reducing API Calls with Batch Functionality
  Use the batch operations available in SP-API to reduce call volume and save resources.
• Ensuring Healthy Seller Account Status
  Seller account maintenance for maintaining a healthy status for SP-API calls.
• Manage your product listings lifecycle with Selling Partner API
  Simplify and manage your product listings lifecycle with SP-API.
• Security Audits: Best Practices and Readiness
  How to prepare for and successfully complete a security audit

Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting Selling Partner API authorization errors
  Context and troubleshooting tips for common error messages and codes that developers may encounter during the application authorization process for Selling Partner API.

Vendors

• Getting started with Selling Partner API for vendors
  Summary of the APIs available for vendors on Selling Partner API and information on how to get started using the Selling Partner API.
• Automate your Vendor Central Direct Fulfillment purchase orders workflow
  Explains how to automate business processes using the Direct Fulfillment APIs.
• How Vendors can use Selling Partner APIs to increase their performance
  SP-API solutions makes it easier to manage and optimize the vendor sales channel.